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Okay! For those of you who didn't get the earlier message, because I didn't actually tickybox the "Contraptionology!" favers specifically: in order to keep the universe in balance after an unbelievably positive Bronycon, I was rewarded one day later with a laptop that went from normal functioning to "motherboard damage plus bad hard drive" with absolutely no warning whatsoever. The good news is that the replacement laptop is finally up and functioning and is useful again for writing, but since I had really hoped to make writing progress last weekend, which did not at all happen, the "Contraptionology!" hiatus might extend a teeny bit longer than the end of this week. Especially since I have an potential EQD-only project in the works with a very specific deadline that has to get out first (you'll understand why if you see it.) Thank you for your patience.
In other news, I swear, sometimes I think my primary driving motivation for writing Ponyfic is so that I can tell you what specific ponies like to eat without creating a blog post that specifically just yammers on about what things are tasty to which ponies. All the rest of the story and crap is just there so that I can convey pony dietary likes to the world at large. How else am I going to voice the vitally-important fact of Twilight's love of sliced cucumbers? Or her cinnamon fixation? What about Cadance's bliss at finding a sandwich shop that fixes sandwiches with bean sprouts on them? Or her affection for black cherry agar gelatin? In essence, my message seems to be, "You need to listen to me BECAUSE I AM AN AUTHOR AND EVERY SINGLE INSIGHT I PRESUME TO HAVE ABOUT A CHARACTER IS VALUABLE.
"EVERY... SINGLE... ONE.
"AND IF I HAVE TO WRITE AN ENTIRE STORY TO GET YOU TO UNDERSTAND THIS, SO HELP ME, I WILL WRITE THAT STORY."
Ahem. Anyway. Skywriter out.
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Oh, a foodie story. PLEASE DO IT. Some of my favorite parts in narratives are descriptions of food and the characters' reactions. Anyone who has seen Spice and Wolf knows what I'm talking about.
I would love to see a good pony foodie story!
>>224227
The food scenes aboard the Opera Concordia in part 3 of "Via Equestria" are some of my favorite moments in all Ponyfic. It's the exact same sort of funny feeling I get with reading spa stories, or that part in "Romance Reports" where Applejack and Twilight go swimming. (The irony that the single part of an explicitly adult story that I go back to over and over again is the one part that has no sex in it does not escape me.)
Sensuality kills me every time. Not in the sexy connotation of the word. Just... writing that lets itself soak in the the moment of experiencing a thing rather than busying itself with a plot. I used to read purple-prose haberdashery catalogs for the same fix, because all they do is sit around telling you, in words, how awesome their clothes feel to wear. And it's heavenly.
>>224243 So... does this mean you're a big Redwall fan? At least half the page-count in those books is describing the massive feasts the mice constantly hold.
That's the spirit! I'm all for reading about food--one of my favorite authors is Brian Jacques of the Redwall series, and I was always starving for food I would never be able to eat throughout each book.:
Seriously, that man was a beast when it came to describing mouth watering goodness.
Mm!
...I've never felt so close a kinship with another human being. This is eerie. Just recently I was thinking about an idea for a fic and my preliminary scribblings kept filling up with these great stonking reams of prose describing cooking and then using said cooking as a vehicle for insights of questionable culinary philosophy as related to whether Rarity likes rarebit or not. And I distinctly remember thinking that, given half a chance, I'd just write a pony cooking show and ignore all that 'characterization' and 'plot' stuff.
I guess what I'm trying to say is...if you do write "On The Culinary Preferences Of Ponies - A Definitive Guide" I'm putting it on the favorites list without even looking.
"Cadance"? Oh, no. They've gotten to you, too.
Repeat after me: Derpy. Cadence. Derpy. Cadence.
>>224243
AHA! You have revealed your secret. I'm going to read haberdashery catalogs - and when I return, you shall QUAKE BEFORE MY PROSE!
story about food?
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I would read a story about food. :)
What about Rarity? I'm imagining some kind of fancy spaghetti marinara au jus la croquettes or something. (Her secret shame is peanut butter and banana sandwiches. The peanut butter is so sinfully messy, and it absolutely does not work well with the banana, except somehow it does.)
New fic "Celestia is Addicted to Tea: An Intervention" (written by Luna).
I know what ponies eat, too…
>>224499
>>224345
Sadly, I'd be a fan of that work but I'm probably the wrong author for it. Part of the reason why I'm fascinated by sensual writing is that I'm, well, so very bad at it.
>>224272, >>224304
This is a little surprising, considering I cut my writing teeth over ten years ago writing furry fiction, but... I haven't actually read the Redwall books. Mayhap I should start.
>>224347
As far as I'm concerned, she's either "Mi Amore" or "Cadence". But head-canon says that one of her first acts in the as-yet-unwritten "Cadance of Cloudsdale" is to to change her name from the very sensible Mi Amore to a sort of crazy non-word name as an act of rebellion and to match her teen friends, who are renaming themselves things like "Gretchen" and "Janice", and I'm trying to be respectful of that.
>>224989
>to match her teen friends, who are renaming themselves things like "Gretchen" and "Janice"
Her friends have poor lawyers. Neither "Gretchen" nor "Janice" can be trademarked. They should try "Grecchen" or "Janace".
I'd like to see a meta-fiction about the Mane 6 attempting to go about their daily life without violating any trademarks or copyrights. Or maybe that's one of those things that sounds like a good idea, until someone tries it.
>>224928
Just trying to be funny...
>>225072
For the record, I didn't see it as trolling. It sounds like something I'd write someday, if my dance card weren't already catastrophically full.
>>224304
To this day, any time I see cheese with fruit or nuts in it, I think of Redwall.
>>225144
Catastrophically full? Are you sure you don't have room for a tiny minty wafer?
>>224989
You won't regret it--they're fantastic books, in my holy opinion.
>>225592
Ha yeah, that happens every time I see pasties, tarts, pies, ales or ciders. It's a shame he passed last year.
>>225942
He did? Thanks for telling me.
>>226426
Yeah, I believe it was in January of 2011, from a heart attack I think. He had another book on the way, which is published now. I stopped reading redwall a few years back, but now I plan on going and finishing the series for old times sake, and also since he was one of my favorite authors.
>>225758
I see what you're doing here, but no, I do not have that room.
>>225072 So am I
>>248837
I know. I always just get distracted by your avatar though, so I tend to lose track.
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